Visions of a California that isn’t coming back, including photographs of the Hotel Coronado where Mrs. Simpson is supposed to have met the future Duke of Windsor while going through a receiving line with her United States Navy officer first husband. ca. 1900-1910. From an album for sale by rare book dealer James Arsenault.

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Tent City on Coronado Beach. San Diego, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
Camping scene on Mount Wilson (picturing a woman cooking and a girl reading in a hammock). San Gabriel Mountains, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
Tent City, Coronado Beach. San Diego, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
1318: Scene in Tropical Court, Hotel Coronado, San Diego, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
Scene showing tourists riding on a camel. Venice Beach, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
278: Westlake Park, Los Angeles, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
771 Twin palms near Pasadena, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
249 Avalon Catalina Island. California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
267 New bath house, Long Beach, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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